James 4:1-10 ▼

1 you breathe slaughter and revenge for what you cannot obtain.

2 you quarrel and go to war, but without success, because you don't petition for it: and if you did,

3 you would not obtain it, because you wickedly request to have your passions gratified.

4 Degenerate race, don't you know that friendship with vice is hostility against heaven, he that is a friend to the vicious world, is an enemy to God.

5 or do you imagine that passage of scripture to be insignificant, "does the spirit that dwells in you, incite you to vice?"

6 on the contrary, he heaps his favours upon you, wherefore 'tis said, "God defeats the proud, but is gracious to the humble."

7 Surrender therefore to God, resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

8 address your selves to God, and you will find him present with you: cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, you that are diffident.

9 be afflicted, be mournful, and weep: let your mirth be converted to sadness, and your joy to vexation.

10 humble your selves before the Lord, and he will raise you up.